Anvh,
I bought a Huey Pro to try to calibrate my two laptops.I was finding despite have had printer profiles created for me to match the printer/ink /paper combination, the prints were far darker than the screen[s]
The result with the supplied Huey software was horrific,the screens went on one green and on the other red!
I then downloaded the Argyle/diplayGui softwear combination and used the laptop preinstalled parameters.
This then produced screen[s] that are more acceptable but still have a odd cast. This cast only seems to affect the desk top and the colours on ,for instance, this web page.
A image viewed with PS looks fine the white is white etc etc.
What has amused me is that I was sent a"correct" print for my printer by the ink/paper manufacturer and downloaded the same image to print out.
To get the supplied sample and my print the same I use the printer supplied software at +95% bright +5% magenta, -3% contrast.That gives me a print almost exactly th same as the supplied sample!
The supplied profiles are still way to dark!
My screen colours are still not the same, close, but not correct but at least the "brightness" is now ok. Its a bit of a bodge up but it works ok for us.
BTW I changed my camera colour space from SRGB to AdobeRGB which helped as well.
Alistair

sorry, yes I did mean 1/3rd in, if you still find the foreground soft then adjust your "1/3rd" closer, with out resorting to measuring with a tape or other measuring device, this is still the best way.
Unfortunately the d.o.f. view is not much use on any pentax and to zoom in on a preview does not alway tell the story either.
Your method in the link above is very good but you either have to have a very good eye for distances or use a long tape, as the distance scales on most lenses are not accurate enough or rather should I say do not have enough individual distance points marked to get the accuracy required in this method.
I have found my 1/3 in used to consistently be to far away so I spent a couple of hours pacing out distances till I got a better feel for the 1/3 distance.
Having shot a lot overseas I have a good "feel" for some typical range distances which also helps me.
Alistair

Neil, use a small aperture, focus about 2/3 Rd's in to the composed shot, look at it and learn, it's the best way. Remember you can guarantee if you see an image with a great depth of field it was f16 or greater;and it was on a tripod so the slow speed that goes with that sort of aperture does not matter.
it's digital so experimenting does not cost thats the joy.

Alistair

I saw at the Imaging show and bought this 90 degree viewfinder.
the pentax view finder addapter is a bit loose but the olympus one is a good fit.
it has a diaopter adjuster built in and works very well
Alistair

http://www.srb-griturn.com/right-angle-view-finder-1600-p.asp

or

[img]hm?? how do you attach a image to a post??
Alistair
ah got it [sort of]

fixed, I rebooted the nachine and all is now well, very interesting results on both laptops, where the Huey sofware turned a grey desktop sort of gray green and gave a green tint to whites, i now have a fine setup.
I wonder why the huey software does not like these laptops?
Alistair
BTW many thanks for this th read and all the info, I never would have found this software otherwise.

Matt
I have downloaed the two software programs you talk about in the previous posts and have them working ok, the sofware finds the huey and runs the colour test and creates a profile but when it askes do I want to save this profile I get the message

dispwin: error- we dont have access to the videoLUT

how do I fix that??
Alistair

I bought a Huey pro which works OK on a old Hanson CRT but on two laptops with so called high end graphic screens produces the most awful Green colour cast no matter what I try I can get far better results just comparing a printed image to the same image in PS and saving that as a profile In fact it stays remarkably accurate over a range of photos with varying levels of colour and contrasts.
So phooey to the Huey it for ebay I suspect
Alistair

Hi, is any one using the Epson 2880 and Permajet cis inks and papers?
I recently bought this setup and I am really struggling to get some usable images Every thing I print is flat dull and lifeless. .Despite emailing the suppliers who will remain nameless at this point there is a total lack of response to these questions, [I hope this is not another one of these once we have your money we don't care companies]

Any way perhaps some else is using this set up and can help me with these questions.
I bought at the Imaging show the printer , cis ink system with Permajet inks and a box of A3 Permajet canvas fine art semi gloss 360gsm, as well as a A3 box of matt plus 240, plus a canvas test pack and a mixed media pack, I have asked these questions from them but I have not had any reply, I spoke to a member of staff yesterday who promised to email information but that has not arrived either.

Unfortunately despite asking questions about the Epson printers available capable of printing A3 paper sizes and the use of both canvas and gloss and matt textured and non textured papers no one bothered to tell me that some papers require the PK ink and some use the matt black ink,
Since I have no intention to mess about changing the ink and even worse the chip block to achieve this please can any one supply or send the web site link to a list of which papers require which ink?

Please can you also tell me what will be the effect of using PK ink on the canvas papers that requite the matt ink?

I also would appreciate a list of what paper settings to use on the Epson printer set up page, I assume gloss paper for gloss but what for canvas types? unfortunately that info is not included in the sample packs.
with out that how am I to know what settings to use to send the samples they ask for on their website to create custom profiles for my printer?

I cannot relate the profile names on the supplied CD to all the papers, for example, which is the profile for the canvas fine art semi gloss 360gsm?
I do not see a code in the profile description that reads canvas FA semi or FA semi for example.
Is there a list some where that tells you for example which paper profile matches which papers? I can clearly identify ones like oyster but there seems to be 29 paper types but only 16 profiles on the supplied CD .

There are far more OEM profiles but I understand they are for Permajet paper and Epson original ink?

As I have and dull colours I want send prints for profiling but till I know which paper works works with which paper setting in the Epson software printer setup I cannot see any point in trying to do this.

Since is now over two weeks since I bought this lot for a lot of money I am getting a frustrated that I still can't produce a decent usable image.
regards to all
Alistair